Welcome to the center for the prestigious Brandon Movie Awards.  The following is a display of the Best Picture BMA winners for every year one was awarded.  To find out which movies have been in the running for BMAs, click on any poster from each decade and it will take you to the list of movies I have seen from that decade.

Current Movie Count:  1449

10 Movies Most Recently Seen for the First Time:

A Night at the Opera by Sam Wood - 1935
The Navigator by Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp - 1924
L'Atalante by Jean Vigo - 1934
Sherlock Jr. by Buster Keaton - 1924
Bringing Up Baby by Howard Hawks - 1938
Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard - 1963
Muriel by Alain Resnais - 1963
In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar-wai - 2000
The Rite (Riten) by Ingmar Bergman - 1969
The Forgotten Ones (Los Olvidados) by Luis Bunuel - 1950












BMA Trivia:

Number of times the BMAs have agreed with the Oscars on Best Picture:  9 (All Quiet on the Western Front, Grand Hotel, It Happened One Night, Casablanca, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Deer Hunter, Schindler's List, Return of the King)

Winningest Director:  Orson Welles at 5 BMAs--Citizen Kane, the Lady from Shanghai, Mr. Arkadin, Chimes at Midnight, F for Fake

4 BMAs: 
The Coen Brothers
--Blood Simple., Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski

3 BMAs: 
Alfred Hitchcock--The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Rebecca
Stanley Kubrick
(The Killing, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket)
Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America)
Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now)
Peter Jackson (the LOTR trilogy)

 

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